This is virtually certain to fall on deaf ears. The foreign policy establishment will be fully back in the saddle, and that means more empowering of America’s enemies and abandoning of its allies.
“Netanyahu warns against reengaging with Iran, in apparent message to Biden,” Times of Israel, November 22, 2020:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an apparent message to US President-elect Joe Biden and his team, warned on Sunday against reengaging with Iran on the 2015 nuclear deal.
“We will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said at an annual memorial event for Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, in the southern kibbutz Sde Boker where Ben-Gurion lived.
“There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement. We must stick to an uncompromising policy of ensuring that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said.
The world must stop Iran’s “aggressive behavior, including its support for terror,” he said.
Netanyahu said Israel’s stance toward Iran played a part in Jerusalem’s warming ties with the Arab world. Israel in recent months achieved historic normalization agreements with three Arab states — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
“Thanks to our determined stand against the nuclearization of Iran, and to our opposition to the nuclear agreement with Iran,” Netanyahu said, “many Arab countries have fundamentally changed their approach to Israel.”
Netanyahu’s comments Sunday echoed his bitter opposition to the 2015 deal when it was being negotiated by the Obama administration, and contrast starkly with Biden’s pledge to “rejoin” the accord.
In March 2015, Netanyahu warned in a blistering address to the joint houses of Congress that the nuclear deal then taking shape between Iran and Western powers “paves the path for Iran” to a nuclear arsenal, rather than blocking it, and urged American leaders to walk away from what he called “a very bad deal.” The speech publicly underlined the profound differences between Netanyahu and president Barack Obama over how to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, with Netanyahu denouncing the Obama-backed deal when it was finalized later that year as a “historic mistake for the world.”
Hundreds of protesters, including Ben-Gurion’s grandson, gathered at Kibbutz Sde Boker ahead of Sunday’s speech to protest against Netanyahu, calling for his resignation over corruption charges.
Biden has lambasted US President Donald Trump for his 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear deal. During the presidential campaign, Biden pledged to return to a renegotiated version of the agreement if he won the election. Biden was vice president when Obama and the other P5+1 members finalized the deal.
Biden is generally expected to take a more conciliatory approach to Iran than Trump, who has levied punishing sanctions against Tehran and had its top general killed in January. Tehran appears open to discussions with the Biden administration….
revereridesagain says
Bibi, could have told you it was not use trying to make nice to the senile old man in the basement, he was vice president to the Jew-hater who poked his finger at you showed his disrespect openly. Israel is on her own again, and will do what she has to do because she knows her worth and is not afraid to defend her life.
Unlike too many so-called Americans, as has just been proven.
Dude says
He needs to meet with the White House and bring them up to speed. He understands this hornet’s nest completely. Better than anyone.
Jo says
Obama is heavily tied to Iran. He will give them everything they need. Period
revereridesagain says
I don’t think many people comprehend the extent of Obama’s resentment and malevolence. He has been uncommonly adept at maintaining a kind of cloaking “great statesman” image unthinkingly accepted by the “woke” and those on the left who continue to cling to the dream that he would be “the great uniter” when he has been the opposite, and never intended it to be otherwise.
James Lincoln says
revereridesagain,
100% true.
The very best example of “bait and switch” that I can think of…
Frank Anderson says
Dude, talk is cheap. There is a time where talk and negotiation are not just wasted, but entirely self-defeating. I wear out my WWII comparisons; but unfortunately there is so much to learn from them, they must be kept in mind.
Neville Chamberlain, followed less than eagerly by Edouard Daladier refused to accept the reality of Hitler’s ambition of conquest, denying the goal with every opportunity and wasting years to be prepared and confront the violence clearly being shown within Germany, to be spread elsewhere.
It is logical to me at least that if Hitler was willing to kill his own people, what stopped him from killing “untermench” (sub-human) non-Germans? NOTHING.
Dreaming that the Obama 2.0 administration will suddenly change its plan to surrender the world to islam is delusional.
Infidel says
Netanyahu shouldn’t waste his time talking to Biden. He should instead convince his Arab neighbors to give their native shi’a population enough religious freedoms that they wouldn’t feel inclined to turn back to Iran for support or inspiration. Even if Iran got planeloads of cash, their support among Arab shi’a has collapsed due to both their interference in Iran and Lebanon, as well as the coronavirus. Only thing from Biden coming to power – if he does – would be Iran getting a breather from certain collapse
gravenimage says
I doubt this would work, Infidel, for several reasons. Firstly, most Shia support Iran as *the* Shia state–this is independent of whether they have rights in their home countries or not. Then, while many Shia *are* oppressed all over the Sunni world, few of them simply want equal rights–they want to be able to oppress others themselves. Just look at Iraq.
Infidel says
You’re right, but that’s changed this year. First of all, the shi’a in Lebanon started resenting Hizbullah being an active combatant in the Syrian civil war, and threw their lot in w/ the opposition to the Hizbullah led Lebanese government. In Iraq, while during the Bush and Obama years the shi’a were happy to support pro-Iranian parties like the Mahdi army, last year, they started resenting Iranian influence and elected an anti-Iranian shi’a party over a pro-Iranian one.
And this year has been a watershed, after all those Arab shi’a pilgrims went to Qum, got infected w/ the Chinavirus and then ended up spreading it back in their home countries. As a result, Iran’s reputation among them have fallen sharply. Also, sunni Arab countries that were previously dedicated to ousting the Assad regime have now changed their minds, b’cos they prefer an Alawite but Arab regime in Syria to a Sunni but Turkish takeover of that country. Yeah, the shi’a might like the power to oppress others, but they might settle for a deal that gives them some minimum rights if they don’t support Iran Also, while the shi’a may like the power to oppress, at the same time, they don’t wanna be puppets of anyone else, not even Iran: at some point, the fact that they’re Arabs and therefore superior to those Iranic Muslims also kicks in!
gravenimage says
You may be right, Infidel–but so far I haven’t seen many examples in action. I guess we’ll see.
gravenimage says
Netanyahu: ‘There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement’ with Iran, in apparent appeal to Biden
………………
Good for Netanyahu!
Sadly, Biden is unlikely to listen to any reason.
Adam Michael Nordskog says
Biden… Just another Jihadi.
gravenimage says
He’s not actually a Jihadi–he is pretty much a Jihadi enabler, though.
cjk says
Netanyahu has revealed himself to be a rat-fink. Trump reveals yet another unprincipled politician.
The world is in such a Dark Age without even realizing it.
gravenimage says
How so? Even Trump has begun the transition at this point. Netanyahu dealing with Biden–and realizing how dangerous his policies are apt to be–is hardly an indication that he preferred a Biden win to a Trump Vin.
cjk says
That rat-fink almost fell over rushing to congratulate Biden. After everything Trump did for Israel the rat-fink shows his true colors.
You say Trump has begun the transition? You have no credibility then
gravenimage says
Lots of world leaders congratulated Biden when it appeared that he was the president-elect–this is quite standard, and *does not* mean that any one of them necessarily wanted this outcome to the election.
As for the claim of my having no credibility for daring to note that President Trump has greenlighted the transition, this is absurd. His Tweets are here in this article:
https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/11/24/938344591/facing-pressure-trump-relents-on-starting-transition
I presume you were unaware of Trump’s comments. That does not mean that you should insult me, though–it is always best to check if your beliefs are challenged.
None of this means that I am happy with the outcome of this election, nor even that the election was entirely honest. But ignoring or denying reality does not help our cause, whatever you might believe.
cjk says
I didn’t insult you and Trump has not begun any transition. If you double down that he has then YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY.
Netanyahu has indeed shown himself to be a rat-fink of the lowest order and I have lost all of the great respect I had for him.
You don’t congratulate a guy who just won an obviously fraudulent election which is still not officially decided nor conceded.
A man with principle would announce that he would be waiting for the official results and especially so when it concerned someone who has been such a dear ally.
Netanyahu has shown himself to be a DISGUSTING RAT